Funeral Customs

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(gan teideal)

“Tá aithne agam ar chailín áirithe a posadh le déidheannaighe - anuiridh a posadh í.”

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Funeral Customs etc

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Radalach

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(gan teideal)

“A Oisín, is binn liom do bhéal ag innsint scéil.”

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Labhrás O Airtneada

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“You must never carry a spade or fork or other such implement, on your shoulder, into or out of the house.”

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(gan teideal)

“This day, Tim Hederman of Manisteranaonough, angler, fowler, observer of nature, voracious reader and constant supplier to me of any folklore which cine within his ken, brought me in a live specimen of the Great Peacock moth (Saturnia pyre).”

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(gan teideal)

“Drum Asail, now generally known locally as Tory Hill, rises rather abruptly from the plain of Coshma.”

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“In the parish of Banoge, couth of and adjoining Croom, of which until 1861 it was a part, there is in the extreme south, a hill called Cnocán an Chroidhe (so definitely phonetically written in the Croom marriage register for 1808-1818).”

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“If you have a scald in your foot induced from an exceptionally long walk, you can cur it by putting on it the leaf of the cuckle-root.”

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Jerry English

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“Cuckle-Root = great burdock”

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(gan teideal)

“There is healing in the leaf of comfrey.”

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Dick Butler

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(gan teideal)

“Slánlus grows in meadows ...”

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J. English

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(gan teideal)

“Last night at 10 0 clock ("old time"), the sky-line from the southwest to northwest was wonderfully beautiful and bright, in bands of colour, scarlet, deep rose, pink, white and darkening into light green and sea-blue.”

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“They say that if you make a garter of eel-skin and wear it that it will banish cramp from the leg.”

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Denis Lyons

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“Talking about weasels reminds me of a thing that happened me in Lyonses one day.”

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Ed Hogan

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Sconce

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(gan teideal)

“A cock whose usefulness in the fowl-run has come to an end, must not be killed.”

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Micheál O Domhnaill

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“When the fowl get a certain disease, I'm not sure is it the "piuc" or what you call the glúnach, a way to put a stop to its ravages was to bury alive one of the worst-affected fowls.”

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“Goat-flesh, if not a rarety was not an uncommon variety of food even as late as thirty years ago.”

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